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(1):

(v. i.) To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.

(2):

(v. i.) To make trial; to essay.

(3):

(v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.

(4):

(v. t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.

(5):

(v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.

(6):

(v. i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.

(7):

(v. t.) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

(8):

(v. t.) To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

(9):

(v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Prove'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/prove.html. 1828.
 
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